Designing for the Public
The way that governments build software and work with data must change if we want to be more efficient.
2016-08-18
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Steve Jones
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Rounding Challenges–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-08-18
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2016-08-17
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2016-08-16
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Remember the Alamo (with a SQL Saturday nearby)
This past weekend was the first SQL Saturday in San Antonio, TX. I was lucky enough to get the chance...
2016-08-15
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2016-08-15
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Dreaming of SQL Saturday
I’m truly stunned at the responses I received to my post asking how far people have traveled for a SQL...
2016-08-12 (first published: 2016-08-03)
1,424 reads
Executing Multiple Threads to Create a Load
Learn a few techniques for executing multiple sets of queries at once.
2016-08-11
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Opening .SQL Files in SSMS 2016 by Default #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-08-11
10,972 reads
Keyboard Hardlines
The potential vulnerabilities of wireless devices might be a security issue for databases.
2016-08-10
109 reads
Blogs
Automatic Index Compaction
By ReviewMyDB
Index maintenance has always meant nightly jobs and a window you have to defend....
The Goldilocks problem – Materialized Views
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but...
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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How We Handled a Vendor Retry That Loaded Twice in Snowflake
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Cognitive Coverage
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Question of the Day
Getting the Average
I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.
salesperson commission Brian 12 Brian 16 Andy 7 Andy 14 Andy 21 Steve 20 Steve NULLAll the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
, AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
FROM commission
GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve? See possible answers